10.1% ▲ +43.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Oxenford · Suburb / Locality
Language in Oxenford
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A far lower proportion of people in Oxenford use a language other than English at home compared to the national figure. While 10.1% of residents speak another language, this is far below the 22.3% seen across Australia. Most of the community speaks only English.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 86.1% of residents, while Mandarin is the most common other language at 1.2%. Despite being much higher than most similar areas, only 1.2% of people here speak little or no English, which is about the same as the Queensland figure.
1.2% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Oxenford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32241/oxenford/topic/language